Saturday, June 13, 2009

Clickable A4: The News: N. Korea vows to proceed with its nuclear program

If the printernet were in existence, a two sided color A4 could be in the hands of every high school kid in the United States on Monday June 15, 2009, with no shipping and a minimal carbon footprint. It could be printed by the teacher on the local MFP.

Reporting from Beijing -- North Korea, calling itself a "proud nuclear power," vowed today to forge ahead with its nuclear program in defiance of the latest United Nations sanctions resolution. . . . more at http://tinyurl.com/228m

The peninsula was governed by the Korean Empire until it was occupied by Japan following the Russo-Japanese War of 1905. It was divided into Soviet and American occupied zones in 1945, following the end of World War II. North Korea refused to participate in a United Nations-supervised election held in the south in 1948, which led to the creation of separate Korean governments for the two occupation zones. Both North and South Korea claimed sovereignty over the peninsula as a whole, which led to the Korean War of 1950. A 1953 armistice temporarily ended the fighting; however, the two countries are officially still at war with each other, as a peace treaty was never signed.[7] Both states were accepted into the United Nations in 1991.[8] On May 26, 2009, North Korea unilaterally withdrew from the armistice.[9] . . . more athttp://tinyurl.com/edmbw

The Video The winner of the 2001 International Emmy award for Best Documentary, Welcome to North Korea is a grotesquely surreal look at the all-too-real conditions in modern-day North Korea. Dutch filmmaker Peter Tetteroo and his associate Raymond Feddema spent a week in and around the North Korean capital of Pyongyang -- ample time to produce this outstanding film. Creative Commons license: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs; from www.archive.org.at http://tinyurl.com/2pwrmj